Staff Technical Program Manager - Agentic Data Plane
CA, NY, WA and other US locationsFull-TimeStaff
Salary190000 - 235000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Required Skills
- JiraSlackGitHubDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Technical Program Management, Engineering Program Management, or similar roles delivering complex enterprise or infrastructure software
- Strong technical foundation in distributed systems, data infrastructure, and/or AI/ML platforms, with the ability to reason about architecture and engineering trade-offs
- Proven experience managing large, multi-team programs spanning multiple layers of infrastructure, including dependency management, risk mitigation, and execution tracking
- Demonstrated ownership of release management or large-scale delivery processes across multiple products or teams
- Ability to align diverse stakeholders, manage ambiguity, and drive execution in fast-moving, high-growth environments
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate status, risks, and trade-offs, including the ability to adapt communication to targeted audiences from diverse teams and roles (individual contributors to executives)
- An ability to empathize with your fellow employees, designing and negotiating policies and procedures that enable needed business outcomes while minimizing friction and overhead
- Comfortable working in a 100% distributed / remote environment, collaborating via GitHub/JIRA, Slack, Google Docs, and modern productivity tools
Responsibilities
- Drive execution of Redpanda’s most complex, cross-team initiatives, with primary on the Agentic Data Plane (ADP)
- Lead end-to-end delivery and release execution across Redpanda’s product portfolio, ensuring consistent, high-quality, and predictable releases
- Manage program plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs across multiple engineering teams and workstreams
- Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering and GTM leadership to translate product strategy and technical direction into executable plans
- Drive cross-functional coordination across Engineering, Product, QE, Security, Customer Success, Support, and GTM to ensure delivery and release readiness
- Proactively identify and resolve execution risks, technical dependencies, and delivery blockers in a highly distributed systems environment, and maintain clear program and release visibility to stakeholders
- Own and continuously improve release processes and operational best practices as Redpanda’s platform and organization scale
- Support customer-facing commitments and launches, aligning delivery timelines with business and GTM priorities
- Lead retrospectives and drive continuous improvement in program management, release execution, and cross-team collaboration
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